• Question: Why do pregnant women have cravings?

    Asked by charlottebeale123 to Sarah, Helen, David on 19 Jun 2011.
    • Photo: Helen Fletcher

      Helen Fletcher answered on 17 Jun 2011:

      One theory is that you crave what your body is lacking. For example women lacking minerals get a craving to eat charcoal. I don’t buy that theory myself. It’s just that the pregnancy hormones effect your sense of taste and smell which means you go off some food types and crave others.

    • Photo: Sarah Cook

      Sarah Cook answered on 19 Jun 2011:

      Unbalanced hormones – at least that was my excuse!

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